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Eva Likova

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Eva Likova (21 December 1919 – 15 March 2004) was an American operatic soprano of Czech descent. [1]

80 relations: Alzheimer's disease, American Opera Society, Ariadne auf Naxos, Arnold Gamson, Ballet dancer, Bedřich Smetana, Canadian Opera Company, Carmen, Carnegie Hall, Central City Opera, Charles Gounod, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Don Giovanni, Eileen Farrell, Faust (opera), Free Library of Philadelphia, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Bamboschek, Giuseppe Verdi, Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Herva Nelli, Igor Gorin, Il tabarro, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss II, John Alexander (tenor), Jules Massenet, Julius Rudel, L'elisir d'amore, La bohème, La rondine, La traviata, Lewisohn Stadium, Liceu, Luigi Cherubini, Manon, Martha Lipton, Médée (Cherubini), National Theatre (Prague), National Theatre Brno, New Orleans Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, Newport Music Festival, Norman Treigle, Opera, ..., Opera Company of Boston, Opera house, Opera News, Orfeo ed Euridice, Pagliacci, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Paris Opera, Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company, Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, Pittsburgh Opera, PR Newswire, Prague, Prague Conservatory, Richard Strauss, Richard Tucker, Rigoletto, Ruggero Leoncavallo, San Francisco Opera, Sarah Caldwell, Soprano, Southfield, Michigan, The Bartered Bride, The Gypsy Baron, The New York Times, The Tales of Hoffmann, Turandot, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Vienna State Opera, Walter Fredericks, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Expand index (30 more) »

Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD), also referred to simply as Alzheimer's, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and worsens over time.

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American Opera Society

The American Opera Society (AOS) was a New York City based musical organization that presented concert and semi-staged performances of operas between 1951 and 1970.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Arnold Gamson

Arnold U. Gamson (born December 30, 1926) is an American conductor who is particularly known for his work within the field of opera.

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Ballet dancer

A ballet dancer (ballerina fem., ballerino masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet.

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Bedřich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood.

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Canadian Opera Company

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Central City Opera

Central City Opera is the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States, founded in 1932 by Julie Penrose and Anne Evans.

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Charles Gounod

Charles-François Gounod (17 June 181817 or 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria, based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera Faust.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Eileen Farrell

Eileen Farrell (February 13, 1920 – March 23, 2002) was an American soprano who had a nearly 60-year-long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc.

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Faust (opera)

Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One.

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Free Library of Philadelphia

The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Giuseppe Bamboschek

Giuseppe Maria Bamboschek (1890 – 1969) was an Italian-American opera conductor, pianist, organist, music director and film director.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Grand Theatre, Warsaw

The Grand Theatre in Warsaw (Teatr Wielki w Warszawie) or the Great Theatre—National Opera (Teatr Wielki—Opera Narodowa) is a theatre complex, opera company, and home of the Polish National Ballet, located on historic Theatre Square in Warsaw, Poland.

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Herva Nelli

Herva Nelli (January 9, 1909May 31, 1994) was an Italian-born operatic soprano.

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Igor Gorin

Igor Gorin (October 26, 1904 – March 24, 1982) was an Austrian baritone and music teacher.

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Il tabarro

Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play La houppelande.

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (Sohn), Johann Baptist Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

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John Alexander (tenor)

John Alexander (October 21, 1923 – December 8, 1990) was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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Julius Rudel

Julius Rudel (6 March 1921 – 26 June 2014) was an American opera and orchestra conductor.

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L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto (act).

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La rondine

La rondine (The Swallow) is a comic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)Meadows, p. 582 is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Lewisohn Stadium

Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater and athletic facility built on the campus of the City College of New York.

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Liceu

The Gran Teatre del Liceu, or simply Liceu in Catalan, is an opera house on La Rambla in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini (8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was a Classical and pre-Romantic composer from Italy who spent most of his working life in France.

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Manon

Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

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Martha Lipton

Martha Lipton (April 6, 1913 – November 28, 2006) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Médée (Cherubini)

Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.

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National Theatre (Prague)

The National Theatre (Národní divadlo) in Prague is known as the alma mater of Czech opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art.

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National Theatre Brno

The National Theatre Brno (Národní divadlo Brno) is the major theatre house in Brno.

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New Orleans Opera

Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States.

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Newport Music Festival

Since 1969, the (Rhode Island Arts Foundation at Newport, Inc.) has presented world-renowned and emerging classical music artists.

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Norman Treigle

Norman Treigle (né Adanelle Wilfred Treigle (March 6, 1927February 16, 1975) was an American operatic bass-baritone, who was acclaimed for his great abilities as a singing-actor, and specialized in roles that evoked villainy and terror.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opera Company of Boston

The Opera Company of Boston was an American opera company located in Boston, Massachusetts, that was active from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

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Opera News

Opera News is an American classical music magazine.

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Orfeo ed Euridice

(French:; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.

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Pagliacci

Pagliacci (literal translation, Clowns)The title is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English with a definite article as I pagliacci.

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Palacio de Bellas Artes

The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.

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Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company

The Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company (PCGOC) was an American opera company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was actively performing at the Academy of Music between 1950 and 1955.

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Philadelphia Grand Opera Company

The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company was the name of four different American opera companies active at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century.

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Pittsburgh Opera

Pittsburgh Opera is an American opera company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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PR Newswire

PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases based in New York City.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prague Conservatory

The Prague Conservatory or Prague Conservatoire (Pražská konzervatoř) is a music academy in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1808.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.

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San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.

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Sarah Caldwell

Sarah Caldwell (March 6, 1924March 23, 2006) was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Southfield, Michigan

Southfield is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta, The Sold Bride) is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina.

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The Gypsy Baron

The Gypsy Baron is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II which premiered at the Theater an der Wien on 24 October 1885.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann (French) is an by Jacques Offenbach.

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Turandot

Turandot (see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

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University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the performing arts in the United States.

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Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera (German) is an Austrian opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria.

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Walter Fredericks

Walter Fredericks in 1958 Walter Fredericks (1916–2000) was an American operatic tenor and concert singer active from the late 1940s until at least the 1980s.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Likova

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